Dee Banks - site of

Physical Description

Description prior to Demolition
This house was an example of a worker's cottage that was primarily a single room weatherboard house with a
pitch roof and a 'lean-to' to the south. The house had a clear paned vertical sash window and hinged quadrant
glazed window to the 'lean-to'. There were small flat sheet steel supports over the windows.
At the front of the property there was a low wide clipped privet hedge and simple mesh wired gate fixed to two
vertical posts, one with the simple letterbox. A bull nosed verandah was added to the front of the house and
had been enclosed at a later date with naco louvres and fibro asbestos sheeting. To the rear, further
weatherboard 'lean-to' extensions were carried out
There was a small separate one room building with horizontal weatherboard on three sides and brick on the
other connecting to the front. Other handyman outbuildings were built on site. The laundry/toilet was a
separate small structure with a large brick chimney for the copper. The laundry was timber framed with naco
louvres sheeted in fibro asbestos. It is expected the other sheds were for horses and equipment. One had a
high monopitch roof with hand made metal louvres, partly in vertical boarding and partly in vertical corrugated
iron. At the rear of the site there was a further simple shed building with vertical corrugated walls and low
monopitch iron roofing on a stud frame.

History

This house has been home to the Skinner family since the house was first built, early in the 20th Century. In
1998 is was still occupied by Miles Skinner, the son of the original owner. The house was demolished in 1999.

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